persona grata
Example Sentences
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Cavett: I was actually persona grata at the White House for a brief time.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2016
Robert Frost should be persona grata to two opposing parties: Yankees who never touch poetry and poetry-bibbers who shy at Yankees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Berlin was asked if Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett of Kentucky would be persona grata in his place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though he took candle in hand and marched devoutly in one of the many well-attended Corpus Christi parades last month, Vice Chancellor von Papen seemed no longer persona grata to the Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was his custom to pose as an English philanthropist, who was almost eccentric in his liberality and who made himself persona grata in society.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.
