Without exception, these have been proved to be altogether inapplicable.

That little advice about the two dogs is very well, and was not altogether inapplicable.

C'est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite; but to Mr. Ruby the phrase seems altogether inapplicable.

Some one once called the Giraffe a "two-story animal," and the remark was not altogether inapplicable.

It is, perhaps, more correct to say that the word deception has no particular meaning for them, and implies a standard which is altogether inapplicable.