self-contradiction
noun
an act or instance of contradicting oneself or itself.
self-contradicting
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a word derived from
self-contradiction.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Gill looks back at that 1992 interview and others and realizes that the Jeff Beck he thought he knew is a mystery, a self-contradicting trickster with a tendency to be witty and evasive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The often affable yet self-contradicting Fury, however, soon suggested that money doesn’t matter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally charged, and often self-contradicting.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2020
I spent hours talking to Kuhn in 1992, when he was at MIT, and he struck me as almost comically self-contradicting.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 23, 2019
His was a self-contradicting countenance, the duke reflected, as he took him in with a somewhat long look.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
