How to Use diss in a Sentence

diss

1 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • Getting dissed by the alt-weekly of record could be a hipster’s nightmare.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The public’s disses seem to have stung as much as Kendrick’s five-song smackdown.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • And then there’s the scores to settle with everyone Drake disses on those six songs.
    — Drake Got Heated, Vulture, 17 Nov. 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
  • Not saying that somebody need to diss him or competition.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Future has been featured on songs from both artists, some of which include disses at one another.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Did her family really diss her at the last minute in Bermuda?
    — We Need Answers, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Prowler-Miles disses his pronunciation of his last name.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • However, the truth is that Schaeffer will never publicly diss a player.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2025
  • He might be better served by taking his own advice before dissing so many of his fellow rappers on publicly retrievable jail calls.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The language allowed trash-taking sugar critics to be hauled into court, not only for dissing sugar, but for dissing how it is grown.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Aaron Rodgers gets razzed again Saturday night's show also included an Aaron Rodgers diss.
    — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Alyson Hannigan's daughters dissed her on an escalator photo pose.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The seventh track on the new album has led to widespread speculation that Swift is dissing fellow pop star Charli xcx.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Drake didn’t take the opportunity to diss Ye’s recent antisemitic comments, though.
    — Vulture, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Later in the track, Cardi continues to diss BIA while taking shots at her looks at lack of award show hardware.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The undertaking might seem crazy to those who diss the fight game or have unfavorable reviews of the current administration.
    — Dan Gelston, Fortune, 13 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • During their romance, the Puerto Rican rapper, 30, seemingly dissed Booker in one of his songs.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 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
  • That’s still behind Solo, however, which posted a four-day opening of $103 million (that movie was dissed by audiences and critics alike).
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
  • After Dorinda, 58, seemingly mocks Kelly, 55, the ladies are hurling disses at each other left and right.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Matthew Lillard is opening up about the positive outcome after director Quentin Tarantino publicly dissed him.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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

diss

2 of 2 noun
  • What gives a good diss track its edge?
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025
  • That’s no diss to the Kroenkes.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That’s no diss to the Kroenkes.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026
  • That’s not a diss or anything — this is what life has become.
    — Vulture, 21 July 2022
  • Hart made the diss at his recent Netflix roast.
    — Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026
  • It probably wasn’t meant as a diss, but certainly came off as one.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The repetitive melody leaves room for every diss, boast, or threat from the rap duo to be heard loud and clear.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 20 June 2026
  • The diss was widely panned, and the beef seemingly fizzled out.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But the diss didn’t land well on social media, where Twitter users are slamming it.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Again, that was not a diss to any particular branch of the community.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
  • These are a few of the most bizarre, uncomfortable, overwhelming, and evil diss tracks ever.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 May 2024
  • Noa, her first husband (1997-98), didn’t take that diss lightly.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ross appeared to drop a diss toward Drake before his track was officially out.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The lyric is a diss toward fellow rapper Bia, as the two have had their own feud that turned into an exchange of diss tracks.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Musgraves, a Texas native, was cheered by the ACL crowd after the diss.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe Hickel would have appreciated what amounted to a folk diss track.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 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 night gets worse when Steven hears the awful diss album Taylor’s ex-boyfriend Milo made about him.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Scheana Shay is celebrating the holiday season with a catchy new song — and a not-so-subtle diss.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The diss refers to pleasure—simple pleasures, normal pleasures, things that everyone can enjoy.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2021
  • On the track, the Fayetteville, NC native opened by addressing Lamar’s diss.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Apr. 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
  • After the song was released, social media users were quick to piece together a diss seemingly aimed at Yungblud.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • West, too, saw Eilish's remark as a diss, sharing a screenshot of an article on Instagram.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Most artists probably wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a diss from Eminem, but Lil Yachty wears it like a badge of honor.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2025
  • In Lamar’s most recent diss to Drake, the Compton native, 36, references the eatery.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • Given the context, fans wondered if the detailed defecation scene was meant as a diss against Game of Thrones, and some viewers even took it as an insult.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Jennings concluded the diss by addressing Long directly.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Lana Del Rey’s latest song has been interpreted by fans as a diss against Ethel Cain, sparking rumors of a feud between the two singers.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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