non grata

[non grah-tuh, grey-, nohn grah-tah]

adjective

1. not welcome.

   Reporters were non grata at the diplomatic reception.

Word History and Origins

Origin of non grata¹

First recorded in 1925–30; abstracted from persona non grata

Example Sentences

LeBeouf admits he was surprised to even be cast in the film — “I was beyond persona non grata, I was nuclear,” he says — and so there is a last-chance desperation to the way he needs to endlessly talk over the smallest of moments, pushing Coppola to the edge of exasperation more than once.

From Los Angeles Times

It also declared two hardline Israeli government ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, persona non grata, along with Jewish settlers accused of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

From BBC

“He did it again, and I threw him out of the place. Persona non grata…that was it.”

From Salon

Currently, his popularity in polls is tanking and he is persona non grata on the international stage.

From Los Angeles Times

“Ever since the publication of my last book, which made an honest appraisal of the culture war, I’ve been somewhat non grata in certain literary circles,” Daum writes.

From Los Angeles Times