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The phrase "altogether useless" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is completely ineffective or without value.
Example: "After trying to fix the old computer for hours, I realized it was altogether useless and needed to be replaced."
Alternatives: "completely worthless" or "entirely ineffective."
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But a donkey?" He looked back again at the mulberry trees, cruelly severed but not altogether useless.
Unwilling to believe that music was altogether useless, Darwin concluded that it may have made man's ancestors more successful at mating.
And look, there's some dumb-ass woman drivers (pretty to look at but altogether useless) veering off the road and spooking the pedestrians.
The combing has to be very smart and selective, or it will be altogether useless.
For someone who wishes to avoid doing himself and others harm, Socrates concludes, rhetoric is altogether useless.
His angry mob proved altogether useless and too easily talked down -- and was anyone else hoping for a chorus of "Kill The Beast" just to Disney things up a little?
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Completely useless.
"They're completely useless".
"You're all useless".
Funduscopic examination is completely useless.
Scrap it altogether - it's useless, pointless bureaucracy that doesn't solve anything.
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