"confirmed bachelor" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a man who is firmly committed to never marrying. For example: "At the age of 50, Bill is a confirmed bachelor who has no interest in getting married."
"Confirmed bachelor?" one was expected to scoff.
"You're right, sir. A confirmed bachelor never marries".
This is a cooler, sexually mellower sparring match, between an unregenerate spinster and a confirmed bachelor.
But she does present Yeshua as the subject of rumors — said to be what was once called a confirmed bachelor.
In 1857 Harvey Burdell, a New York dentist and confirmed bachelor, was found stabbed to death in his home on Bond Street in Manhattan.
In An Independent Organ, we meet Dr Tokai – confirmed bachelor, nifty cook and cosmetic plastic surgeon who runs the Tokai beauty clinic.
Your fellow travelers are confirmed bachelors with strapping young companions, name-tag-wearing elderly on a day pass off the cruise ship.
Others were able to rely on the inhibitions of a bygone era to maintain their privacy as what the press once called "confirmed bachelors".
She not only has the right look of attenuated grace: she also captures the nomadic restlessness and amused irony of a woman who sees herself, along with Cardinal Spellman, as one of New York's "most confirmed bachelors".
Some members say they are taking third or fourth wives, but many new husbands are from among the group's most dedicated fighters — confirmed bachelors previously wedded only to the work of killing invaders and their Iraqi allies.
For a long time it was customary to plant rue, with its bad scent, or even nettles and thistles on the graves of old, confirmed bachelors as a way of discouraging celibacy.
