scandalous vs shameful

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

shameful

adj
  • Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful 

  • Giving offense. 

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