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Discover LudwigThe phrase "altogether pleased" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express complete satisfaction or happiness about a situation or outcome.
Example: "After receiving the good news about her promotion, she felt altogether pleased with her hard work paying off."
Alternatives: "completely satisfied" or "entirely happy".
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Still, Rangers Coach Ron Low was not altogether pleased by his team's defense.
Mr. Grasso, who is more at home with harried traders yelling things like "bid an eighth, ask a quarter!" seemed altogether pleased to play host to a few celebrities from Hollywood.
Hubert Will, AB'35, JD'37, was not altogether pleased when JFK made him a federal judge in 1961.
When I expressed my surprise to him, he seemed amused and altogether pleased.
When his bursary ran out a year later, he wasn't altogether pleased to go home.
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Alternately channeling Alexander Calder and Georges Braque, Carter's jaunty constructions are altogether pleasing.
Desserts feature savory, herbal, even vegetal ingredients repackaged in surprising, intriguing and altogether pleasing ways.
It's a homey, mild, altogether pleasing dish of soft ingredients that is effortlessly eaten.
It was lively and dry, with plummy, earthy flavors that were altogether pleasing.
He built a house on top of the bluff that gave him a view of his altogether pleasing imposition on the geography of the Low Country.
At the same time, critics who believe that the F.D.A. needs stricter drug regulations are likely to consider the program too radical, and it may not altogether please pharmaceutical companies, either.
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