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
Once he seemed bent on expelling all foreign correspondents, but now more than 200 of them are "persona grata" in a land where American diplomats are not.
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
On my return to Malta Pope Benedict even intimated that I would be persona, grata as Minister to the Holy See.
From Time Magazine Archive
The work was harassing; he was not a persona grata with his colleagues, and none sought to lighten his burdens.
From Velazquez by Bensusan, S. L. (Samuel Levy)
