How To Use Contradiction in terms In A Sentence
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The idea is almost a contradiction in terms.
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Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.
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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
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Many people think that an honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
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That's a better way to keep the old cliche from turning into a phrase like ‘jumbo shrimp’ - a contradiction in terms.
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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
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In our business, the phrase "harmless error" is a contradiction in terms.
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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
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The most important instrument of dirigisme is subsidy, even though subsidy in a free market in a contradiction in terms.
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A complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms.
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To undermine liberty in the name of protecting a way of life is a contradiction in terms.
Times, Sunday Times
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And on the even "weightier" side, could "mobility" actually be a contradiction in terms?
Douglas Forbes: Downward Mobility: Tech Toys and Society
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'When it is increased to _certainty_, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown, which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any _contingency_ dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
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In this context, religion belongs to traditional society, and so the term new religion can be perceived as a contradiction in terms.
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Clearly, an unreflective or uncritical citizenry would be highly undesirable as well as, strictly speaking, a contradiction in terms.
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His was a natural gift and, if it is not a contradiction in terms, this is exactly the way he styled it.
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The difficulty arises from an apparent contradiction in terms; and that difficulty is as complete in the case of a headache which lasts for an hour as in the case of a pestilence which unpeoples an empire, -- in the case of the gust which makes us shiver for a moment as in the case of the hurricane in which an Armada is cast away.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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Child prodigy historians or sociologists would almost be a contradiction in terms.
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Within the governing metaphors of gender, masculine domesticity was a contradiction in terms.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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These sound like a contradiction in terms, but the name refers to an area on the mainland, mainly in forests of beech and podocarps, which would be treated like an island and given intensive pest control programmes.
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In short, a penitent soul in Hell is a flat contradiction in terms.
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Many people think that an honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
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Now that we may come to the other Attribute, which is said to be of Body but not of Spirit, viz. Discerpibility; if they understand it so; that one only Body, even the least that can be conceived (if any such Body can be conceived) may be divided; that is certainly impossible; for it is a contradiction in terms, and supposes every the least Body to be discerpible into lesser Parts.
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy
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Within the governing metaphors of gender, masculine domesticity was a contradiction in terms.
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
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'When it is increased to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown, which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else.'
Life of Johnson
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The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an oxymoron, certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics.
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But no such thing shall inherit the heavenly regions; for this were for corruption to inherit incorruption, which is little better than a contradiction in terms.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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If this wasn't a contradiction in terms one could say that the aspiration of the typical Spaniard is a strange, prohibitionist and dictatorial country of concordant individualists.
Concordant Individualists
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Australians lacking self-confidence are almost a contradiction in terms, yet the signs are unmistakable.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is surely a contradiction in terms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea is almost a contradiction in terms.
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A generous miser is a contradiction in terms.
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Was free labour a contradiction in terms?
Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
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It is just too easy to dismiss the idea of ethical business as a contradiction in terms.
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Sometimes they affirm absolute relativism, a contradiction in terms.
Christianity Today
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In our business, the phrase "harmless error" is a contradiction in terms.
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Perhaps that is because the term dried plum juice is a contradiction in terms too grotesque for even the federal government.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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But resuming on 456-3, with the pitch flat, a man with a Test century to his name batting at nine and the Indian attack looking like a contradiction in terms, we could genuinely be looking at an England total in excess of 700.
BBC News - Home
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That would be a contradiction in terms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many people think that an honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
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It is just too easy to dismiss the idea of ethical business as a contradiction in terms.
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I love the rich, dark flavor but my body doesn't like the caffeine, and decaffeinated coffee has always seemed like a contradiction in terms.
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The existence particularly of Christian Epicurean tracts on happiness may seem odd, even a contradiction in terms.
