Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase when two descriptors are contradictory.

Reverse dictionary results:
1. oxymoron
2. contradiction
3. paradox
4. antithesis
5. discrepancy
6. paradoxical
7. self-contradictory
8. irony
9. antinomy
10. antonymous
11. contradictory
12. incompatible
13. opposite
14. adversative
15. antithet
16. antithetical
17. antonym
18. contrast
19. another story
20. antilogous
21. conflicting
22. contradiction in terms
23. contrarian
24. contrariant
25. contrariety
26. counterfactual
27. denial
28. diametral
29. norman
30. unintuitive
31. adverse
32. contradictional
33. contrafactual
34. contrarianism
35. counterintuitive
36. oppositive

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