The difference is very slight, and anyone who just can't do without automatic reverse may find this Sony model altogether satisfactory.

There is no altogether satisfactory solution to this problem.

It was strange, and not altogether satisfactory, what happened then.

It was a not altogether satisfactory listening post.

It is not altogether satisfactory to call a print by an artist on the same theme as one of his paintings a description.

Not that the present edition is an altogether satisfactory one.

"Your response is not altogether satisfactory," she said.

One doesn't like to speak evii of the dead, but I'm afraid I couldn't say that he was altogether satisfactory.

Her mother's attitude towards each of them was similar; they were not altogether satisfactory but they would have to do.

"I am afraid that is not altogether satisfactory, sir."