divided loyalties
Frequency: 7.08.5 per million words
a situation where one feels loyalty to two opposing people or causes
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- Disagreements with one's in-laws often create divided loyalties.
- The general faced divided loyalties when ordered to attack his hometown.
- She struggled with divided loyalties between her career and her family's traditions.
- Many immigrants experience divided loyalties to their homeland and their new country.
- The new manager quickly understood the divided loyalties within the team.
- His divided loyalties made it impossible for him to choose a side in the conflict.
- The child felt divided loyalties when both parents asked him to spend holidays with them.
- Journalists often face divided loyalties between protecting sources and reporting truth.
- He couldn't reconcile his divided loyalties to his former mentor and his current employer.
- The company's merger caused divided loyalties among its long-term employees.