saccharine vs tragic

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. 

tragic

adj
  • Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness. 

  • Having been the victim of a tragedy. 

  • Causing great sadness or suffering. 

  • Relating to tragedy in a literary work. 

noun
  • An obsessive fan, a superfan 

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