Citations:knee-jerkish

English citations of knee-jerkish

Adjective: "(informal) exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response"

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• 1985, Student Lawyer, Volume 14, page 19:

  "It was all very clear to me then," Abrams recalls. "The press side seemed so knee-jerkish."

• 1990, Kurdistan Times, Issues 1-3, page 230:

  Thus to judge their heart-felt reactions, some of which may look "knee-jerkish" at times, without taking into account their past bitter experiences, their present insecurities, or their dreams would be presumptuous, to say the least.

• 2001, Terry Osborne, Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression, University Press of New England (2001), →ISBN, page 39:

  It seemed a little knee-jerkish anyway, too obvious for the neighbor across the street to do, and a little too much like adolescent vandalism for my own conscience.

• 2006, The Oriental Economist Report, Volumes 74-75, page 91:

  Fukuda cares deeply about policy issues. He worries that Abe is a bit shallow on policy matters, and a bit knee-jerkish in his populism.