びみょう
subtle, delicate, sensitive, iffy
A step too small to see and something half a shade off, and where he stands in that company is exactly that. Be び, meow みょう, and nobody can say which it was: びみょう.
In speech びみょう is often a polite no. Asked how something was, it means not great.
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