vindicative vs waspish

vindicative

adj
  • Vindictive, excessively vengeful. 

  • Vindicating, having a tendency to vindicate. 

waspish

adj
  • Spiteful or irascible. 

  • Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp. 

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