Meanings
alternative personae non gratae
- pluralproscribedplural of persona non grata
The Doors became personas non grata. They couldn't get a gig.
2007, Paul Ferrara, Flash of Eden, →ISBN, page 1382 more examples
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.
1995, Robert Jackson Alexander, Presidents of Central America, Mexico, Cuba, and Hispaniola: Conversations and Correspondence, →ISBN, page 349. 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.
2001, Neil Rattigan, This is England: British film and the People's War, 1939-1945, →ISBN, page 327
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