monstrous vs scandalous

monstrous

adj
  • Hideous or frightful. 

  • Enormously large. 

  • Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters. 

  • Freakish or grotesque. 

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

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