pie-in-the-sky vs uninventive

pie-in-the-sky

adj
  • Lacking reality and serviceability. 

  • Of a dream unlikely to ever come true; impractical, unrealizable. 

uninventive

adj
  • Not inventive. 

How often have the words pie-in-the-sky and uninventive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )