cruel vs suicidal

cruel

adj
  • Intentionally causing or reveling in pain and suffering; merciless, heartless. 

  • Cool; awesome; neat. 

  • Harsh; severe. 

verb
  • To violently provoke (a child) in the belief that this will make them more assertive. 

  • To spoil or ruin (one's chance of success) 

adv
  • To a great degree; terribly. 

suicidal

adj
  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

  • Pertaining to suicide. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

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