self-contradiction
noun
an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
self-contradictory
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a word derived from
self-contradiction.
Example Sentences
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Some of Meta’s response to the book seems self-contradictory or misleading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025
It’s fuzzy-edged, nuanced, self-contradictory, and its pluralistic approach to the East has both a historical and a contemporary vocation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
"If North Korea ever invades the South again, it will be self-contradictory, where a U.N. member state would be attacking the U.N. Command," Shin told the meeting.
From Reuters ● Nov. 14, 2023
The lies are so silly and often so self-contradictory — and the people disseminating so obviously evil — that these texts just feel like confirming what we already knew.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2022
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
