deplorable vs sad

deplorable

adj
  • To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable. 

  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched. 

noun
  • A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables". 

  • A person or thing that is to be deplored. 

sad

adj
  • Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. 

  • Soggy (to refer to pastries). 

  • Causing sorrow; lamentable. 

  • Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull. 

  • Appearing sorrowful. 

  • Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor. 

  • Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable. 

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