"knee-jerkish" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "knee-jerk + -ish",
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          "ref": "1990, Kurdistan Times, numbers 1-3, page 230",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2001, Terry Osborne, Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression, University Press of New England, page 39",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2006, The Oriental Economist Report, volumes 74-75, page 91",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response."
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        "(informal) Exhibiting or characteristic of a rash or automatic response."
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  "etymology_text": "knee-jerk + -ish",
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          "ref": "1990, Kurdistan Times, numbers 1-3, page 230",
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          "ref": "2001, Terry Osborne, Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression, University Press of New England, page 39",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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