ghastly vs scandalous

ghastly

adj
  • Horrifyingly shocking. 

  • Like a ghost in appearance; death-like; pale; pallid; dismal. 

  • Extremely bad. 

adv
  • In a ghastly manner. 

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

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