Citations:knee-jerkish

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

 * 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 9781584650836, 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.