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This trope is that person in a story who not only isn't interested in getting married, but who will denounce it loudly and with caustic relish if anyone else should be so foolish as to say marriage isn't that bad in their presence. Expect them to condemn marriage as an action of the mentally unbalanced, to treat friends getting married as if they are going to their own funeral, and say things like 'Not me, I'll never let myself get ensnared by a woman, you mark my words!' Examples of Deconfirmed Bachelor include:

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  • Deconfirmed Bachelor
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  • This trope is that person in a story who not only isn't interested in getting married, but who will denounce it loudly and with caustic relish if anyone else should be so foolish as to say marriage isn't that bad in their presence. Expect them to condemn marriage as an action of the mentally unbalanced, to treat friends getting married as if they are going to their own funeral, and say things like 'Not me, I'll never let myself get ensnared by a woman, you mark my words!' Examples of Deconfirmed Bachelor include:
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  • This trope is that person in a story who not only isn't interested in getting married, but who will denounce it loudly and with caustic relish if anyone else should be so foolish as to say marriage isn't that bad in their presence. Expect them to condemn marriage as an action of the mentally unbalanced, to treat friends getting married as if they are going to their own funeral, and say things like 'Not me, I'll never let myself get ensnared by a woman, you mark my words!' Of course the more definite they are, the more they are generally cementing their ultimate fate: to have the right woman come along and, be it through love at first sight, her feminine wiles, the plotting of all the confirmed bachelor's friends who would love to make him eat his words after all his lecturing or a combination of the above, the confirmed bachelor ends up tying the knot more or less of their own free will, and becoming a deconfirmed bachelor. Examples of Deconfirmed Bachelor include:
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