Table 5 Most frequently found abusive terms for all abuse types and for political and sexist abuse, alongside count for the whole corpus
From: Which politicians receive abuse? Four factors illuminated in the UK general election 2019
All abuse terms | Count | Political abuse terms | Count | Sexist abuse terms | Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fuck off | 8342 | tory scum | 284 | witch | 224 |
idiot | 6766 | remoaner | 276 | stupid woman | 149 |
twat | 4337 | fuck off commie | 113 | you stupid woman | 148 |
coward | 2649 | tory bullshit | 108 | stupid man | 108 |
idiots | 2632 | tory twat | 79 | you stupid man | 104 |
scum | 2324 | tory cunt | 60 | you silly man | 101 |
cunt | 2068 | tory bastards | 57 | silly man | 88 |
moron | 1979 | bloody tories | 54 | you silly woman | 78 |
piss off | 1866 | tory shit | 50 | stupid boy | 69 |
wanker | 1390 | fucking tory | 49 | silly boy | 65 |