unhippocratic

unhippocratic

English

Etymology

un- +‎ Hippocratic

Adjective

unhippocratic (comparative more unhippocratic, superlative most unhippocratic)

1. (rare) Not befitting a doctor.
   • 1973, W. Gifford-Jones, On Being a Woman

     Similarly, those doctors who decry the operation as an "unhippocratic" act need not perform it.

   • 1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's children

     But the young Doctor has entered the throes of a most unhippocratic excitement at the boatman's cry, and shouts, 'I'm coming just now! Just let me bring my things!'

   • 1986, Anthony Smith, The body

     There are forceps deliveries, and there is the roguish and unhippocratic story of their development.

Synonyms

• undoctorly