The phrase "altogether foreign" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is completely unfamiliar or unrelated to a particular context or situation.
Example: "The customs and traditions of that country were altogether foreign to me when I first arrived."
Alternatives: "completely unfamiliar" or "entirely strange".
And although it was Marquis's first major league grand slam, trotting around the bases is not altogether foreign to him.
To Taylor, the wealthy son of Philadelphia aristocrats, most of them were also altogether foreign, something he made sure to underscore.
The effect is ultimately beguiling, and feels altogether foreign in today's comedy landscape, when gay undertones are usually played for laughs.
Cases involving the liability of an owner of a baseball field for the injuries sustained by those attending its games are not altogether foreign to the courts of this State.
In terms of both the technology and the politics, his Cloud Cities are highly contemporary – yet they would not be altogether foreign to Étienne-Gaspard Robert.
(This emphasis by Maritain on the intuition of being goes beyond what we find in Aquinas — some have argued that it is altogether foreign to him — and arguably reflects Bergson's account of the intuition of duration).
Altogether, foreign-born Hispanics — including legal and illegal immigrants — make up nearly a third of the state's Hispanic population, which itself has fueled 65percentt of population growth in Texas since 2000.
By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, July 24 , 1948P. 56 LETTER FROM LONDON about: Rain and floods... Cigarette shortage... Rationing lifted on bread and shoes, the clothing trade urging the abolotion of rationing altogether... Foreign tourists have stayed on for the Glyndebourne Festival... Tate Gallery is showing paintings by Jack B. Yeats.
Zambia and Mauritius have done away altogether with foreign exchange controls.
International news, once the crowning glory of network television news, has become altogether too foreign to network journalism.
But if that is likely to happen then won't a blanket tax on bonuses drive staff out of UK banks altogether, to foreign firms?
