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
Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington.
From Time Magazine Archive
On my return to Malta Pope Benedict even intimated that I would be persona, grata as Minister to the Holy See.
From Time Magazine Archive
Naturally he is persona grata at Buckingham-on-Thames and in other conservative and princely household.
From Time Magazine Archive
Evidently Sir Hudson Lowe was no more of a persona grata to Wellington than he afterwards became to Napoleon!
From A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle by Lancey, Magdalene de
