personas non grata

English

Alternative forms

• personae non gratae

Noun

personas non grata

1. (proscribed) plural of persona non grata
   • 1995, Robert Jackson Alexander, Presidents of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and Hispaniola: Conversations and Correspondence‎^[1], →ISBN, page 34:

     Samoza has a long list of people who are personas non grata, and Figures suspects that I cannot get a visa to get into the country for this reason.

   • 2001, Neil Rattigan, This is England: British film and the People's War, 1939-1945‎^[2], →ISBN, page 327:

     9. Powell and Pressburger produced a short film between Colonel Blimp and A Canterbury Tale: The Volunteer, a recruiting film for the Fleet Air Arm, for which they had total Admiralty cooperation, which suggests they were far from personas non grata with the authorities.

   • 2007, Paul Ferrara, Flash of Eden‎^[3], →ISBN, page 138:

     The Doors became personas non grata. They couldn't get a gig.