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altogether

/ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/ adverb B1
  1. Completely, wholly, or without exception. · Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
  2. On the whole; with everything considered. · Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
  3. With everything included. · Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
  4. An intensifier: without doubt, clearly. (informal) · It was a great game altogether.· That took altogether too much time.
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They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 305 · B2
For my own part, I have laid aside even the name of my father, and altogether disown his political principles.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 45 · C1
Policar Morrel, who served under the other government, and who does not altogether conceal what he thinks on the subject, you are strongly suspected of regretting the abdication of Napoleon.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 37 · C1
I have only one; but that one is altogether a thoroughbred Lion.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 7 · B2

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