The phrase "altogether false" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement or belief that is completely untrue or inaccurate.
Example: "The claim that the earth is flat is altogether false and has been debunked by centuries of scientific evidence."
Alternatives: "completely untrue" or "entirely incorrect".
Whenever he contradicts himself, he never does so with the qualification that the initial pronouncement was wrong, preferring instead to imply that it's all part of some master plan or that accusations of inconsistency are altogether false.
Of course, the stereotype says a hacker is a solitary teenage boy who stays up all night in his bedroom trying to knock the Pentagon's Web site off the Net, and indeed, Ms. Milhon said, the image is not altogether false.
It may represent an early period in Śāntarakṣita's Madhyamaka thought, or it may be an altogether false attribution, but its ideas certainly vary in important ways from the later thought of Śāntarakṣita found in MA and MAV. 6. See Blumenthal (2008).
Those who are fervent advocates for red meat as both a business and a healthy food choice, meanwhile, denounce such headlines as sensationalistic if not altogether false.
Altogether, false positive CNV calls were made in 21 (13.6%) of the 154 trios studied and false negative CNV calls were made in 2 (1.3%) of the 154 trios studied.
The antigens included in the IGRAs have been selected based on their absence in most non-tuberculous mycobacteria and in the vaccine strain M. bovis BCG altogether limiting "false positive" reactions [3], [4].
I must altogether abandon the false opinion that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre of the world and moves and that I must not hold, defend or teach in any way whatsoever, verbally and in writing the said false doctrine... .. Or, as Orwell would have it, two plus two equals five.
It is, however, one thing for a proposition or set of propositions to be false, another altogether for it to be necessarily false.
As Ulpian recognized, the unimaginable pain produced by torture often led to false confessions and altogether bad intelligence.
A third option, explored by Rosen 1995, is not to take PW to be false, but rather altogether lacking a truth-value — e.g., in virtue of employing terms with no literal application, such as "… is a world-mate of…".
