sombre vs unsharp

sombre

adj
  • Dull or dark in colour or brightness. 

  • Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. 

  • Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim. 

  • Grave; extremely serious. 

verb
  • To make sombre or dark; to make shady. 

unsharp

adj
  • dulled or intentionally blunt. 

  • out of focus; blurry. 

verb
  • To sharpen (an image) by creating a blurred ("unsharp") negative as a mask, and then combining that mask with the original. 

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