saccharine vs sordid

saccharine

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

sordid

adj
  • Grasping; stingy; avaricious. 

  • Of a dull colour. 

  • Morally degrading. 

  • Dirty or squalid. 

  • Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible. 

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