Jones also noted that Atlanta was shedding its reputation as what he called "kind of a sleepy metropolis."

He returned to school to study law, but never shed his reputation as a troublemaker.

Evidently, he will also have to work on shedding his reputation as a lazy player with a questionable degree of desire.

Yet even as the industry reinvents itself, it may never completely shed its unsavory reputation.

The policy makers have shed their reputation for ineffectiveness.

As the year progresses she is quickly becoming very popular and shedding her old reputation.

In recent years, though, Bronx leaders have become optimistic that the borough may be finally shedding its old reputation.

Indeed, the industry is steadily, though slowly, shedding its traditional reputation as supersensitive to changes in interest rates.

Soweto itself has largely shed its reputation for violence.

Henan has still not, however, entirely shed its reputation as an economic backwater.