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
Naturally he is persona grata at Buckingham-on-Thames and in other conservative and princely household.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Washington denied any involvement, however, and calmer heads in Lisbon declared that Carlucci was still persona grata.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Between 1770 and 1780 she was not only a persona grata at Court, but the friend of Garrick, Johnson, Fox, and all the great political, literary, and social personages of the period.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles