Synonyms:
fringy, marginal
Meaning: at or constituting a border or edge; "the marginal strip of beach"
Synonyms:
borderline, marginal
Meaning: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "marginal writing ability"
Usage examples
It is fallacious also in that it ignores the marginal principle in the problem of profits.
He hunted about a little and showed us a quiet marginal pool where there were smears of red along the border; yes, and of blue.
He took him to the foreman, who decided to try him on a Polyglot Testament, with marginal references, such close work that most of the men refused to do it.
The hampered and lonely itinerant conscientiously covered up the marginal readings, and used them merely on points of construction, as he would have used a comrade or tutor who should have happened to be passing by.
His eye caught an explanatory note: the dividend on the preferred had been cut; the surplus was heavily reduced. His mind, searching rapidly over their business, fixed upon two marginal accounts--Jim Smith's and Waldron's.