serious vs sporting

serious

adj
  • Important; weighty; not insignificant 

  • Committed. 

  • Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition 

  • Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving 

adv
  • In a serious manner; seriously. 

sporting

adj
  • Fair, generous; ‘game’. 

  • Exhibiting sportsmanship. 

  • Pertaining to sports 

noun
  • The act of taking part in a sport. 

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