The phrase "a damaging report" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a report that has negative implications or consequences, often in a context related to investigations, evaluations, or assessments.
Example: "The committee released a damaging report that highlighted several serious issues within the organization."
Alternatives: "a harmful report" or "a detrimental report."
Q: If it's a damaging report, will you stand aside?
Now Giambi is the subject of a damaging report in The San Francisco Chronicle that says he admitted to illegally using steroids.
Whitehall apparently "leaned on" the health service regulator Monitor (according to a senior figure there), in order that a damaging report which showed the NHS moving towards a £2 billion deficit was held back.
Separately, party officials said, Mr. Cuomo called donors on Thursday and raised $250,000 for Democratic candidates for the State Senate, whose fund-raising dried up because of a damaging report by the state inspector general.
Its current position, prompted by a damaging report by its Senate overseers released on Tuesday, is that it's impossible to know whether torture yielded critical intelligence – so the Senate is wrong to say it didn't.
The death, which remains under investigation, followed a damaging report in September by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, which described abuse by employees at two girls' detention centers.
After this behind-the-scenes lobbying, Mr Byers' own plan for an inquiry, which could have published a highly damaging report, was dropped.
What did Chevron do when it learned that "60 Minutes" was preparing a potentially damaging report about oil company contamination of the Amazon rain forest in Ecuador?
It is the same as publishing a false and damaging report in a newspaper.
Some Dutch commentators said that the left-to-right governing coalition perhaps hoped to avoid the damaging report becoming a campaign tool for extremists.
Mr. Graves, in any case, acknowledged recently that he had a role in leaking a damaging news report some years later, about Mr. McGreevey's wild streak.
