Examples of 'knee-jerk' in a sentence
Meaning of "knee-jerk"
Knee-jerk is a sudden and automatic response or reaction to a particular situation, often used to describe quick and instinctive decisions or behaviors
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- Unthinking, not carefully considered, (nearly) automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable.
- A sudden reflexive movement of the leg below the knee, as a reaction to a tap to the tendon just below the patella (kneecap).
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Went into a kind of knee-jerk revenge mode.
Knee-jerk reactions are putting lives at risk.
If i would wanted a knee-jerk drug diagnosis.
My previous answer was a bit of a knee-jerk.
We have a knee-jerk reaction to major disasters.
I am just concerned about knee-jerk reactions.
A knee-jerk reaction against all things establishment.
China is engaging in a knee-jerk foreign policy.
He has a knee-jerk reaction to any kind of authority.
My first initial reaction is a knee-jerk reaction.
Lower your knee-jerk liberal defense mechanism.
I simply do not adhere to a knee-jerk assumption.
Like that knee-jerk radical brother of yours.
I believe it is important to avoid a knee-jerk reaction.
Judging is almost a knee-jerk reaction for us as people.
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Knee-jerk negativity is something we can all do without.
And they reverted to knee-jerk correctness.
My knee-jerk devotion to him still runs strong.
Your second paragraph is a knee-jerk ad hominem.
Immediate knee-jerk betting is not the way to go.
You do not want to be a knee-jerk contrarian.
Knee-jerk responses can do more harm than good.
We are not going to get the knee-jerk stuff we were expecting.
Your minds would have been made up in a knee-jerk.
They can have a knee-jerk reaction to certain circumstances.
I am not talking about some knee-jerk reaction.
They are just knee-jerk bullshit and you know it.
You are probably one of them knee-jerk liberals.
The knee-jerk impulse is to hire a professional dialogue facilitator.
But it is important to not have a knee-jerk reaction.
People have a knee-jerk reaction against nuclear power.
We strongly recommend against that knee-jerk reaction.
There is nothing knee-jerk about what we have established.
Such a fight must not be merely a knee-jerk response.
I believe that a knee-jerk response to criticism is seldom correct.
Others saw this as a simple knee-jerk reaction to.
We do not want knee-jerk reactions from the public as well.
It would be wrong to give a snap response or a knee-jerk reaction.
Otherwise we risk another knee-jerk reaction to a potential pandemic.
Resist temptation to lump him in with knee-jerk enviros.
It may have been a knee-jerk reaction on my part to protect it.
You are reading too much into a knee-jerk reaction.
My comment was a knee-jerk reaction to some of these stories.
A lot of money can be saved by avoiding knee-jerk reactions.
This proposal is not a knee-jerk reaction to recent corporate scandals.
A common example is the standard patellar reflex or knee-jerk response.
And your gut or your knee-jerk reaction might be.
Her knee-jerk reaction was to offer new recruits more training.
We are not in the business of knee-jerk reactions and responses.
The knee-jerk cynicism with which it has been greeted is dysfunctional.
