Knee-jerk
"Knee-jerk" in a Sentence (4 examples)
His knee-jerk reaction was to raise his voice at his child.
He gave a knee-jerk response.
There were knee-jerk demands from trade unions for immediate withdrawal of all HSTs; these were wrong-headed.
The knee-jerk reaction is further evidence of just how panicked investors are about the stability of the global financial system after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week.