"insidious conflict" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a conflict that is disguised or difficult to identify, and is often destructive in its effects. For example, "The insidious conflict between our two nations has become increasingly apparent over the past few years."
I find that the more pervasive and insidious conflicts are those resulting from how the workplace impacts the person.
A hard-staring, chiseled man who favors an elegant speaking style, even in grueling rehearsal days, Mr. Jones described the country as fractured by much more insidious and ambiguous conflicts than the divisions during Lincoln's time.
But beyond the corporate failures is the insidious appearance of a conflict of interest.
A more insidious problem is that of conflicts of interest.
Even his major themes – the conflict between the traditional past and the insidious present, between surrogate families and a life of lonely isolation – carry echoes of the master.
But at least a few feel differently, and that conflict in views has bred mysterious deaths, insidious accusations and attention-grabbing antics in faraway locales.
Between the book's covers, "The Conflict" pits what Ms. Badinter sees as the insidious forces of natural mothering — the breast-feeding, the cloth diapering, the constant attentive enrichment of the child — against feminist good sense, which leaves room for mothers to work outside the home and allows fathers in as full and equal partners in the tasks of parenthood.
Animals, embodying human weaknesses, social tension, tragedy, the premonition of death, or some other insidious danger, appear repeatedly on a stage of constant hostility and conflict.
Q.How can you address a conflict that isn't a big blowup, but is more insidious and lasts a long time? A. If someone's behavior is annoying but doesn't affect your work, confronting it directly might not be worth it, says Lisa Maxwell, a mediator with the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego who trains managers on how to handle workplace disputes.
The result of a conflict and how it is handled by management can be more detrimental and insidious to employee morale than the event itself.
