The term "contradictory term" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a word or phrase that contradicts or conflicts with another word or phrase in the same sentence or context. Example: The politician's stance on immigration is a contradictory term. On one hand, he claims to support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but on the other hand, he wants to build a wall to keep them out.
So much so that a French cinematographer like Truffaut would suggest that English cinema is a contradictory term".
Vanessa Friedman, fashion editor at the Financial Times took to the stage earlier to argue that sustainable fashion is a contradictory term.
The area around Bathgate Avenue and 174th Street is an industrial park, a contradictory term for a place that has more concrete-covered factory floors than grassy fields.
And he says his colleague's behavior is a good example of that catchily contradictory term, just beginning to make the rounds through the psychological sciences.
In other words, this talk attempts to untangle — through a discussion of celebrity, paranoia, and maximalist aesthetics — what we mean when we use the seemingly contradictory term "reclusive persona".
Instead he developed an approach he called "12-tone tonality," a seemingly contradictory term that suggested a middle path between those who rejected conventional tonality and those who considered atonality an unproductive break with the past.
How might one explain what some perceive as contradictory terms?
A more nuanced approach might have let Wilson stand on his own contradictory terms.
"Libertarian paternalism" suggests that these two seemingly contradictory terms can actually define a non-contradictory and attractive policy alternative.
In order to avoid useless discussions concerning contradictory terms, one should use the term «metrological observation» in case of doubt.
** Gibney frames the answer to the question of why consumers were so affected by Jobs's death in the same contradictory terms.
