How to Use diss in a Sentence

diss

1 of 2 verb

• For good reason, David has always felt dissed and left out.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• To the journalist who dissed her, keep my ex husband’s ex wife name out of your f*cking mouth.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• And then there’s the scores to settle with everyone Drake disses on those six songs.
  — Drake Got Heated, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
• Drake has finally dropped his Kendrick Lamar diss track.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• His soundscape is what made Common one of my favorite guys, that and the fact that nobody wants to try to diss Common.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
• To the journalist who dissed her, keep my ex husband’s ex wife name out of your (expletive) mouth.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• Popular culture is not in need of more songs in which women diss each other over a man.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2024
• Did her family really diss her at the last minute in Bermuda?
  — We Need Answers, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2024
• Today’s great reads Don’t let anybody diss L.A.’s reading habits.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Oh, and perhaps the most crucial moment on this journey — on this fall’s run of press, Elordi dissed his populist past work on the Kissing Booth series.
  — Vulture, 4 Dec. 2023
• The rappers quickly re-squashed the beef and performed together in Los Angeles, but, the following year, West dissed Drake once again.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Oct. 2023
• No, there was nothing with the messages Harbaugh delivered that could be construed as any type of slight, knock or diss of his quarterback.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2023
• Aaron Rodgers gets razzed again Saturday night's show also included an Aaron Rodgers diss.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2022
• Jerry Jones continues to diss Jimmy Johnson, but would Jerry have even one ring without him?
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
• After Dorinda, 58, seemingly mocks Kelly, 55, the ladies are hurling disses at each other left and right.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
• During their romance, the Puerto Rican rapper, 30, seemingly dissed Booker in one of his songs.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
• Dear Confused: My take on this is that these other women diss America because the pot sometimes enjoys calling out the kettle.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2020
• This comes shortly after Drake allegedly attempted to diss the singer and her relationship on his latest album For All the Dogs.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023
• In 2018, the rapper dissed the Recording Academy for nominating him for eight awards earlier that year, but leaving him to go home empty handed.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
• On your carbon capture effort you’ve been dissed not just by environmentalists but by your fellow CEOs in the oil industry.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Drake didn’t take the opportunity to diss Ye’s recent antisemitic comments, though.
  — Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
• The Witcher has had a rough road the past couple years, with Cavill departing, a former writer criticizing the show’s creative, and Sapkowski seemingly dissing the series.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2024
• Alyson Hannigan's daughters dissed her on an escalator photo pose.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
• The once-untouchable shock-rap provocateur has grown increasingly self-conscious and curmudgeonly as of late, devoting entire albums to thrashing critics who gave him bad reviews and slandering young rappers who had the nerve to diss him.
  — Bryan Rolli, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The select committee's members are showing fresh urgency, warning that Trump acolytes who diss subpoenas face criminal referrals, a move that would put the Biden administration's Justice Department in the hot seat.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• Her witty disses and clever wordplay demonstrated her prowess as a battle rapper, and her contributions have become important aspects of hip-hop’s cultural fabric.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• Such suspicions—as well as liberal criticisms that Anthony’s lyrics dissed poor and obese people—spurred indignation from political pundits for whom Anthony’s success confirmed various pet narratives.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
• For good reason, David has always felt dissed and left out.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Sep. 2023
• To the journalist who dissed her, keep my ex husband’s ex wife name out of your f*cking mouth.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• And then there’s the scores to settle with everyone Drake disses on those six songs.
  — Drake Got Heated, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023

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diss

2 of 2 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: 5 Sep 2024