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Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Contradicting or inconsistent with itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Contradicting one's self or itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of statements that
contradict themselves, ultimately logically corrupting the statement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true
- adjective in disagreement
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Examples
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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 Richard Holledge 2011
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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'.
Britain's All-Seeing Private Eye Richard Holledge 2011
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
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Then Krugman's famous dictum that central banks should commit to be credibly irresponsible is somewhat self-contradictory.
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The trick is to establish just enough consistency an immediate analysis task – attempts to build a consistent map of human knowledge are doomed because human knowledge itself is messy, contingent, and often self-contradictory.
Crowd-Sourced Carbon Calculators (inspired by David Mackay) | Serendipity 2010
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So what if Avatar has a vapid lowest-common-denominator self-contradictory moralistic message?
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Put another way, this self-contradictory assassin is actually more of a Marxist than McCollum, who actually wants to end frivolous government spending on, you know, stock car races.
Bob Cesca: Most Americans Are Big Government Socialists in Denial Bob Cesca 2011
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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 2009
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Put another way, this self-contradictory assassin is actually more of a Marxist than McCollum, who actually wants to end frivolous government spending on, you know, stock car races.
Bob Cesca: Most Americans Are Big Government Socialists in Denial Bob Cesca 2011
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Even better -- her argument sounds like an implicit vindication of Reagan, but that really just makes it either self-contradictory or hostile to Reagan's legacy.
Sarah Palin's weird 'Sputnik' story Stephen Stromberg 2011
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