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paradoxical

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paradoxical
adjective
it was paradoxical that a government dedicated to privatization should produce a bill to nationalize the legal profession:
contradictory, self-contradictory, inconsistent, incongruous, anomalous, conflicting;
improbable, impossible, odd, illogical, confusing, absurd, puzzling, baffling, bewildering, incomprehensible, inexplicable;
rare oxymoronic.