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
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
When at New Haven, or Princeton, or Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, Eng., he is persona grata among a group of serious-minded young men distinguished by their piety and their wealth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, I can imagine the freezing hauteur that you'll receive him with, and the icy indifference you'll let him understand that he isn't a persona grata with!
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
