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self-contradictory

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1. self-contradictory - Adjective

2. self-contradictory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Contradicting one's self or itself.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. Carroll Quigley

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried. Francis Bacon

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming... Charles Foster Johnson

As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. (...) Software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot. Edsger W. Dijkstra

The World of Ā. This widely-read novel began its career as a pretentious, foolish, wildly complicated and self-contradictory magazine serial. Damon Knight

the figures are at odds with our findings Source: Internet

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