deplorable vs tragic

deplorable

adj
  • To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion; lamentable. 

  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched. 

noun
  • A Trumpist conservative, in reference to a 2016 speech by Hillary Clinton calling half of Donald Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables". 

  • A person or thing that is to be deplored. 

tragic

adj
  • Causing great sadness or suffering. 

  • Cringeworthy; tryhard; unhip; embarrassing; hopeless; indicative of (or having) a chronic lack of self-awareness. 

  • Having been the victim of a tragedy. 

  • Relating to tragedy in a literary work. 

noun
  • An obsessive fan, a superfan 

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