dismal vs sulky

dismal

adj
  • Causing despair; gloomy and bleak. 

  • Depressing, dreary, cheerless. 

  • Disastrous, calamitous 

  • Disappointingly inadequate. 

sulky

adj
  • silent and withdrawn after being upset 

noun
  • Any carriage seating only the driver. 

  • A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing. 

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