sappy vs sugarcoated

sappy

adj
  • Having (a particularly large amount of) sap. 

  • Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy) 

sugarcoated

adj
  • Coated with sugar. 

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

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