salty vs sugarcoated

salty

adj
  • Containing salt. 

  • Tasting of salt. 

  • Coarse; provocative; earthy. 

  • Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy. 

  • Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea). 

  • Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”). 

sugarcoated

adj
  • Coated with sugar. 

  • Made superficially more attractive, possibly to cover up faults. 

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