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

Berlin was asked if Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett of Kentucky would be persona grata in his place.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is not Elias Lord my banker, and Mrs. Bathurst persona grata in my aunt's home?

From The Last Stroke a detective story by Lynch, Lawrence L.