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persona non grata
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Noun persona non grata has 2 senses
- persona non grata(n = noun.person) Array - a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent; Array is a kind of diplomat, diplomatist
- persona non grata(n = noun.person) unwelcome person - a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has particulars: disagreeable person, unpleasant person, ingrate, thankless wretch, ungrateful person, interloper, intruder, trespasser, meddler, disreputable person, gloomy gus, picklepuss, pouter, sourpuss, killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket, annoyer, tease, teaser, vexer, bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler, undesirable, scoundrel, villain
THESAURUS
persona non grata
DP, Ishmael, Jim Crow, alien, apartheid, bad child, bad example, bad man, bad news, bad person, bad woman, castaway, color bar, declasse, derelict, displaced person, disreputable, disreputable person, division, ethnocentrism, evictee, exclusiveness, exile, expatriate, expellee, foreigner, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, leper, narrowness, objectionable person, out-group, outcast, outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outsider, pariah, parochialism, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, seclusion, segregation, separation, snobbishness, social outcast, stranger, tightness, unacceptable person, undesirable, untouchable, unworthy, xenophobia
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