lighthanded vs spoliative

lighthanded

adj
  • Sparing. 

  • Thieving. 

  • flippant. 

  • nimble and dextrous; 

  • Light-hearted. 

  • benign and with minimal intervention. 

  • Not having a full complement of workers. 

adv
  • Carrying very little. 

  • In a light-handed manner. 

spoliative

adj
  • Serving to take away, diminish, or rob. 

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