oxymoron

1. N-COUNT If you describe a phrase as an oxymoron, you mean that what it refers to combines two opposite qualities or ideas and therefore seems impossible. 矛盾修飾法[技術(shù)]

This has made many Americans conclude that business ethics is an oxymoron. 這使許多美國人將商業(yè)道德歸為一種矛盾修飾法。