: readily predictable : automatic
knee-jerk reactions
also, disapproving
: reacting in a readily predictable way
The man was such a bleeding-heart knee-jerk liberal that you could predict the rest of the column after reading the first sentence. —Andrew M. Greeley
: an involuntary forward kick produced by a light blow on the tendon below the patella
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