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
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
Naturally he is persona grata at Buckingham-on-Thames and in other conservative and princely household.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Sir Charles Wood won the enduring gratitude of the Indian reigning houses by relieving them of the exploitation of early British misrule, his grandson is automatically persona grata at Delhi.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was then a persona grata with bishops and archbishops, and Lord Ashley—not yet Lord Shaftesbury—gave him all the support his party could command.
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
