miserable vs plug-ugly

miserable

noun
  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

adj
  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

plug-ugly

noun
  • An ugly person. 

  • A member of an American nativist street gang that operated in the west side of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1854 to 1865. 

adj
  • Very ugly. 

How often have the words miserable and plug-ugly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )