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Discover LudwigThe phrase "altogether mad" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something as completely insane or irrational.
Example: "After hearing his wild theories about aliens, I couldn't help but think he was altogether mad."
Alternatives: "completely insane" or "utterly crazy".
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Leader of the opposition is different: hard, but a job you can grow into, as Mr Cameron has, provided there isn't an imminent election.So it wouldn't be altogether mad to plump for a Byrne-type figure in opposition.
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Now she is totally mad.
They get mad.
Back home, the duo rather wistfully explained on Irish broadcaster RTE, "it's mad excitement altogether", and Skibbereen was "after closing everything down and having a national holiday and we're missing it all".
What psychologists would call a dependency trap, altogether a very teenage mad-at-your-dad cornerstone on which to found a religion.
Mad? Totally.
Few men unaccustomed to it can fight off its effects altogether and it has driven some men mad".
Dr Will Caster is a mad scientist of sorts but an altogether less extravagant one than you might expect.
We can take an aspirin to ward off mad science disease but we cannot altogether dismiss a minister who claims to know our lives and livelihoods are at risk.
But that just made the conservatives mad, and they threatened to kill the bill altogether.
While my gut tells me Spotlight and Mad Max: Fury Road will lead the pack with seven or eight nominees altogether, I'm not sold either will win Best Picture yet.
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