Is this a trick question?
This term comes to mind:
ox·y·mo·ron ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ks-môrn, -mr-)
n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
"God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise."...Joe Jackson