borderline

He said students "on the borderline" felt the impact.

I've written a lot of internal music - Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Nebraska, parts of The River - all about people who live these very intense, borderline violent, internal lives.

"Everything about Tobias and Almut is so easy and sanitised, so positively twee and precious, that they are borderline unbearable to watch."

“I don’t think anybody expected him to play. It was borderline a miracle.”

Given the opposition, strong positions England got themselves into, and the chance of a rare 100% home summer, to be beaten in less than three full days of cricket is borderline unforgivable.