ill-tempered vs sulky

ill-tempered

adj
  • Synonym of bad-tempered. 

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  • silent and withdrawn after being upset 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 ill-tempered and sulky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )