cheating vs witch-hunt

cheating

noun
  • An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity. 

  • The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location. 

adj
  • Unsporting or underhand. 

  • Unfaithful or adulterous. 

witch-hunt

noun
  • A search for people believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, typically in order to persecute or punish them. 

  • A public or political campaign or investigation which smears a person or group. 

  • An attempt to find and punish or harass a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds. 

verb
  • To perform a witch-hunt. 

How often have the words cheating and witch-hunt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )