dismal vs sulking

dismal

adj
  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

sulking

noun
  • The act of one who sulks. 

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