contradiction in terms

How To Use contradiction in terms In A Sentence

• The idea is almost a contradiction in terms.
• Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.
• I imagine many CoffeeHousers baulked at that last bit – but “good, honest spad” is not a contradiction in terms. Special advisers do good work too
• Many people think that an honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
• That's a better way to keep the old cliche from turning into a phrase like ‘jumbo shrimp’ - a contradiction in terms.
• Hence exchange-value appears to be something accidental and purely relative, and consequently an intrisic value, ie, an exchange-value that is inseparably connected with, inherent in commodities, seems a contradiction in terms. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
• In our business, the phrase "harmless error" is a contradiction in terms.
• In the meantime, though, Mr. Pressfield has treated the reader to a thinking person's techno-thriller—which turns out to be not at all a contradiction in terms. Futuristic Soldiers of Fortune
• The most important instrument of dirigisme is subsidy, even though subsidy in a free market in a contradiction in terms.
• A complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms.