miserable vs tormenting

miserable

noun
  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

adj
  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

tormenting

noun
  • The act by which somebody is tormented. 

adj
  • Involving or causing torment. 

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