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Discover LudwigThe phrase "altogether bad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is completely or entirely negative in nature.
Example: "The movie was altogether bad, with poor acting and a weak plot."
Alternatives: "completely bad" or "entirely bad".
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It's not an altogether bad argument.
But his night in jail was not altogether bad.
With all its faults, the Assad regime has not been altogether bad for Syria.
And it has no summer services, not altogether bad, since it has no air-conditioning.
Hunseckerized journalism has defined deviance down -- yet that's not an altogether bad thing.
So it's not an altogether bad time to be making movies.
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Back in that windowless room for a second time, I faced the two DS agents clumsily trying to play semi-bad cop and altogether-bad cop.
Back in that windowless room for a second time, I faced the two DS agents clumsily trying to play semi-bad and altogether-bad cop.
This is not altogether a bad thing.
Perhaps that's not altogether a bad thing.
But that is not altogether a bad deal for them.
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