cornball vs sugarcoated

cornball

adj
  • Naive, corny. 

noun
  • A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. 

  • Something or someone excessively corny. 

  • An unsophisticated person. 

sugarcoated

adj
  • Made superficially more attractive, possibly to cover up faults. 

  • Coated with sugar. 

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