insidious vs skulking

insidious

adj
  • Intending to entrap; alluring but harmful. 

  • Hansel and Gretel were lured by the witch’s insidious gingerbread house. 

  • Treacherous. 

  • Producing harm in a stealthy, often gradual, manner. 

  • The battle was lost due to the actions of insidious defectors. 

skulking

noun
  • The action of one who skulks. 

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