paradoxical

Assigning more lawyers to a problem can cause a paradoxical decrease in the accuracy of the outcome.

"So it’s almost paradoxical that these are utilitarian goods," Josh Clarkson, a professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, told The Washington Post.

That seems to be what life is about, it's a big paradoxical thing.

But those themes do not satisfy certain paradoxical values that also make up the conservative mindset: a rather irreligious appetite for worldly possessions, and the desire for a pseudo-empirical justification for greed.

It’s a little paradoxical, but we invented by trying as much as we could to maintain the spirit of truth.