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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Examples (10)

  • 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.