smouldering vs sneering

smouldering

noun
  • The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. 

adj
  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

sneering

noun
  • The act of one who sneers. 

adj
  • contemptful 

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