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
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
Berlin was asked if Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett of Kentucky would be persona grata in his place.
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
And Mildred, being the daughter of Marshall Lloyd, is persona grata here, and can wriggle out of any scrape.
From Nancy of Paradise Cottage by Watkins, Shirley
