Borderline
Borderline adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Usage example: your answer was borderline rude, so I would advise you to be more diplomatic in the future
Thoroughly is an antonym for borderline.
Nearby Words: border, borderland
Thoroughly
Thoroughly adverb - With attention to all aspects or details.
Borderline is an antonym for thoroughly.
Nearby Words: thorough, thoroughness
Both words in one sentence
- Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces is a thoroughly disgusting and borderline-damaged human being who leaches off his mom and alienates everybody with his rudeness.
Source: Jerkass Woobie / Literature - He so thoroughly destroys Par's sense of self and right and wrong, that by the end the poor kid is borderline insane, and barely able to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
- Not only is Stanley not the main character, and not only had the aristocratic society he's supposedly rebelling against slid into decay long before he was even born, but he's thoroughly selfish and a borderline Psychopathic Manchild and a rapist, for Pete's sake!
Source: Reactionary Fantasy
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