persona grata
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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
"Dr. Alfaro replied that he was authorized by his Government to accept as persona grata anyone whose name should have been suggested by the Government of Colombia."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Berlin was asked if Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett of Kentucky would be persona grata in his place.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was sufficient that a diplomatic officer was non persona grata by the fact that his withdrawal was demanded.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
