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The phrase "a damaging reputation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the negative impact of someone's actions or behavior on their public image or standing.
Example: "After the scandal, he struggled to rebuild a damaging reputation that had followed him for years."
Alternatives: "a harmful reputation" or "a detrimental reputation."
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The Conservative party has a damaging reputation among the many voters who see it as motivated by a desire to promote the interests of the rich and privileged.
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Mitt Romney has struggled for years to shake off a politically damaging reputation as a flip-flopper.
She is on the party's left, as architect of the 35-hour working week, a policy that entrenched France's damaging reputation as a work-shy, high-cost place.
The results of the current study ascertain that negative publicity that can aggravate consumers' attitudes and the company should carefully manage a negative reputation to avoid damaging established consumers' attitudes and purchase intentions.
He has struggled recently to overcome damaging reputation problems related to peacekeeping sex abuse scandals.
But for the women who were on the other end of Mr. Weiner's sexually explicit conversations and photographs, his candidacy is an unwanted reminder of a scandal that has upended their lives in ways big and small, cutting short careers, disrupting educations and damaging reputations.
Even the late adapters realise that not keeping good relationships with stakeholders can have a damaging effect, not just on reputation but also on actual project results.
He singled out the new limitations on students' right to work during and after their studies as having a damaging impact on Britain's reputation of remaining open for international students.
A practice may in fact be prevalent but is only scandalous and potentially damaging to reputation when it emerges publicly.
While changes to the law can take years to be enforced, Wachter believes that there should be a focus on high risk inferences first – those that are privacy invasive or damaging to reputation and have low verifiability or are used for very important decisions.
Billany speculated that Uber was deciding which matters to pass on to police based on what was "less damaging to reputation over serious offences".
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