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
Giovanni Beda Cardinale, is no longer persona grata and that the Argentine Minister to the Vatican, Garcia Mansilla, will be replaced.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Hoover wanted to repudiate the Post's attack against the Prince still more strongly; to establish the fact, without mixing personally in the affair, that the Ambassador was persona grata with the U. S. Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Sir Charles Wood won the enduring gratitude of the Indian reigning houses by relieving them of the exploitation of early British misrule, his grandson is automatically persona grata at Delhi.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was only that Adele had a way of taking for granted she was persona grata, that Nance thought was rather too free.
From Molly Brown's Senior Days by Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis)
