stinging vs vitriolic

stinging

adj

  • Precise and hurtful. 

  • Having the capacity to sting. 

noun

  • The act by which someone receives a sting. 

vitriolic

adj

  • Bitterly scathing, caustic. 

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