Synonyms for knee-jerk
knee-jerk

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1. knee-jerknoun

   Synonyms:
   patellar reflex, kneejerk reflex

2. knee-jerkadjective

   Automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable

   He gave a knee-jerk response.

   Synonyms:
   kneejerk reflex, patellar reflex

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1. List of paraphrases for "knee-jerk":

   instinctive, impulsive, visceral, reflex, ill-considered, reflexive, unthinking, predictable

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1. Ken Trump:

   The message is really simple and it has been since before Nashville, one of the worst times to make knee jerk policy and administrative actions is after a high profile incident like this when you’re in a highly emotional state.

2. Jonathan Barratt:

   I think it was more of a knee-jerk reaction because of the substantial build (of oil stocks) at Cushing.

3. Olivia Nuzzi:

   I’ve always been interested in our knee jerk deference to the intelligence community and how we never learn any lessons related to that.

4. William F. Buckley Jr., "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler":

   Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

5. Mike Helms:

   Bans often inspire a knee-jerk reaction from the people they affect the most, i don't know if the proposed ban on flavored vaping fluid evokes this sort of response. I suspect it does for at least a small number of people. Vaping is not protected in the Bill of Rights, certainly not in the same way that guns are.