knee-jerkish
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[edit]knee-jerkish (comparative more knee-jerkish, superlative most knee-jerkish)
- (informal) Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response.
- 1990, Kurdistan Times, numbers 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.
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:knee-jerkish.