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
Nor is Colonel John Patrick Sullivan, another big old-line Democrat, persona grata beyond his urban district, because of his horse track, gambling and brewing connections.
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 then the artist has been seen no more in Punch's pages, although, jokes serving, he is still a persona grata in Whitefriars.
From The History of "Punch" by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann
