scandalous vs unspeakable

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

unspeakable

adj
  • Extremely bad or objectionable. 

  • Incapable of being spoken or uttered 

  • Impossible to speak about. 

  • Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described. 

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