CONTRADICTION

[noun]You say that you're good friends and yet you don't trust him. Isn't that a bit of a contradiction? [C]There are a few contradictions in recent policies which make you wonder whether the government know what they're doing. [C]The ability to spot contradiction is essential in analytical thought. [U]A contradiction in terms is a combination of words which is nonsense because some of the words suggest the opposite of some of the others.He suspected that the notion of an honest politician was a contradiction in terms.