unhippocratic

comparative more unhippocratic · superlative most unhippocratic

1. rareNot befitting a doctor.

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

   1973, W. Gifford-Jones, On Being a Woman

   2 more examples

   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!'

   1981, Salman Rushdie, Midnight's children

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

   1986, Anthony Smith, The body

   Synonyms: undoctorly