borderline

I knew I had become a borderline alcoholic, but I told myself it was no big deal, because I drank only at night, never during the day.

And reversing it, some experts fear, may be borderline impossible.

“Now, I have a kid in front of me, and they’re borderline, I might assign them the diagnosis because they’ll get the services I think they need.”

The results were predictably ridiculous — and, in a few cases, borderline dangerous.

McCarthy believes bioenergy is one of those ways — essentially, by selling the least valuable, borderline unusable vegetation from the forest floor.