dismal vs plaguelike

dismal

adj

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

plaguelike

adj

  • Like a plague. 

How often have the words dismal and plaguelike occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )