self-contradictory

ADJECTIVE
  1. in disagreement
    the figures are at odds with our findings
    contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness
  2. seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
    it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking
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How To Use self-contradictory In A Sentence

  • Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment. Archive 2009-04-01
  • his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory
  • Then there are the characters who inhabit the pages, such as the bibulous hack Lunchtime O'Booze and Glenda Slag, a parody of many a female newspaper columnist whose opinions are as fickle and self-contradictory as her readers'. News You Shouldn't Use
  • He is described as a Texas oil millionaire and environmentalist, which might appear to be self-contradictory.
  • Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Then Krugman's famous dictum that central banks should commit to be credibly irresponsible is somewhat self-contradictory. Transcript: Shirakawa on Japan's Economy
  • Joan was talky and self-contradictory.
  • It was a strange, provoking, deliberately self-contradictory tale, which instantly sparked heated commentary.
  • The facial expression becomes comparatively unchanging and masklike; walking becomes stiff, and the arms remain motionless instead of swinging naturally with the stride, This combination of too little movement in arms and face and too much movement in head and hands receives the self-contradictory name of paralysis agitans (aj'ih-tans; "to move" L). The Human Brain
  • Traditional binary confrontation of "practice-cognition" is metaphysical and self-contradictory.
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