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The other day I was playing sports, and I yelled at a guy for what I thought
was a cheap play. However, later, after the game ended and I had chilled out,
I realized that I had over reacted. It's sports, that happens.

So I went up to the guy and apologized, and amongst other things I said, I
said something like:

> ごめん、俺{おれ}は、かっこよくなかった

My intended meaning was along the lines of, "[that] was uncool of me [to have
acted like that]."

He seemed to get what I was saying, but we were doing a lot of back and forth,
with him saying `「大丈夫{だいじょうぶ}、とんでもない`」 and me saying
`「いいえ、本当{ほんとう}に悪{わる}かった...」`, and so on. You know how it goes. So my use of
`かっこよくなかった` might have simply got lost among everything else said.

What I was wondering afterwards was if that was the right application of the
word `かっこいい`. I was using it as a direct equivelant of how we use "cool" in
English, which is pretty expansive.

While I'm confident `かっこいい` applies to style and ambience, I'm less sure about
how `かっこいい` applies to attitude and action.

So, did I use it right? Is it correct usage to describe my past uncool actions
as `かっこよくない`?

Can `かっこいい` be used in all the ways "cool" is used in English, or are there
limitations and differences?
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Is it cool to use かっこいい in this way?
The nuances of apologies can be quite subtle in Japanese, so many things are
probably up to personal interpretation, but here are my 2 cents.

While you can definitely use かっこよくない to describe your attitude in that
situation (no offense :p), using it in your apology _could_ be taken as if
you're more concerned about your appearance than whether you offended the guy
by being rude to him. I'm sure he appreciated your apology and that you got
the point across, but here are some expressions that might be safer in the
situation:

> 大人気{おとなげ}なかった That was immature of me
>
> 口{くち}が過{す}ぎた I said too much
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