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
Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington.
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He was at all times persona grata with royalty.
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Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer heads in Lisbon declared that Carlucci was still persona grata.
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It might have offered to recall Chauvelin, and to substitute Maret, a man known to be a persona grata to Pitt.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland