How to Use diss in a Sentence

diss

noun

• Musgraves, a Texas native, was cheered by the ACL crowd after the diss.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
• That’s not a diss or anything — this is what life has become.
  — Vulture, 21 July 2022
• Face beat, waves flowing, and dressed to kill, Vestal delivered the scathing EpiPen diss heard ’round the world.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 5 Mar. 2024
• The think tank claimed that the call sign was a diss at the quality of the People's Liberation Army.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2021
• On the track, the Fayetteville, NC native opened by addressing Lamar’s diss.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
• West perceived that to be a diss to Scott in light of the Astroworld Festival tragedy, where 10 people died.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2022
• The night gets worse when Steven hears the awful diss album Taylor’s ex-boyfriend Milo made about him.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
• In Lamar’s most recent diss to Drake, the Compton native, 36, references the eatery.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• This is a baffling diss, if that’s even what DaBaby intended it to be.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2021
• But the diss didn’t land well on social media, where Twitter users are slamming it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• So for the big Best New Music album to suddenly become a 7.0 felt like a diss.
  — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 4 Apr. 2023
• But critics think of him as something else: an autocrat, a diss only matched by the facts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
• That’s not a diss on an otherwise talented bunch of Tigers.
  — Gabriel Stovall, The Courier-Journal, 24 Sep. 2021
• Lamar then starts shooting off diss after diss after diss.
  — Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 6 May 2024
• These are a few of the most bizarre, uncomfortable, overwhelming, and evil diss tracks ever.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
• Scheana Shay is celebrating the holiday season with a catchy new song — and a not-so-subtle diss.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
• This is in no way a diss of Wilbur Scoville, the pharmacist who came up with this way of measuring pepper pungency back in, yes, 1912.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• While Lamar’s diss was the most blatant, fans have speculated that both Future and Metro had also taken some shots at Drake on the album.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2024
• While Lamar’s diss was the most blatant, fans have speculated that both Future and Metro had also taken some shots at Drake on the album.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2024
• Ross appeared to drop a diss toward Drake before his track was officially out.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
• Maybe Hickel would have appreciated what amounted to a folk diss track.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• The tour marks Drake’s first string of shows since his tour with Migos in 2018, which might explain a particularly curious diss baked within his set.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2023
• West, too, saw Eilish's remark as a diss, sharing a screenshot of an article on Instagram.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• However, 26 years after the playful diss, the country superstar and the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor have still never come face-to-face.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2023
• Fallon jokingly asked if the placement of the sign (taped to his Emmy nomination certificate) was a slight diss at Padalecki.
  — Paulina Jayne Isaac, Glamour, 7 Apr. 2021
• The diss refers to pleasure—simple pleasures, normal pleasures, things that everyone can enjoy.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2021
• From that point on every Queensbridge emcee felt pride, despite Boogie Down Productions’ diss, 84.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• Some of these forms carry the personality of a utility bill; receiving them can seem like a gentle, fancy-fonted diss.
  — Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2022
• Following the release of the track and its accompanying video, the North Carolina native was met with an array of backlash, but explained on social media that the line wasn't meant to be taken as a diss and was rather a play on words.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• The executive’s coastal elite diss convinced Sheridan that HBO didn’t appreciate his story.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024