reputationaladj.

1815 Naval Chron. 33 Pref. p. vi Whatever be the merits of the Biographical part of the Volume, we cannot go far into them without either subjecting ourselves to the imputation of..Egotism, and of the most revolting kind—or of a certain degree of reputational suicide—therefore of ourselves we would rather hear than speak.

1857 W. B. Scates in Rep. Supreme Court Illinois 17 72 I should not pause or hesitate to sustain the plaintiff..when he has shown his right to legal impunity for reputational infanticide.

1921 G. B. Shaw Let. 22 Dec. in Bernard Shaw & Mrs. P. Campbell (1952) 217 It maddens me to see people blundering away..the reputational chances of their lifetime.

1967 Listener 19 Jan. 103/3 [T. F.] Powys is now at the nadir of the twenty-year reputational trough that follows death.

2001 Ecologist Sept. 18/2 What they call a ‘reputational’ problem, we call a consistent pattern of complicity in and responsibility for human rights abuses and environmental degradation.