scandalous vs vile

scandalous

adj
  • Malicious, defamatory. 

  • Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. 

  • Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits. 

vile

adj
  • Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid. 

  • Morally low; base; despicable. 

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