Was she deliberately avoiding him, or had something happened to her?

She had been deliberately avoiding thinking about it for several minutes.

It might also mean that he was deliberately avoiding her.

In fact, he seemed to be deliberately avoiding eye contact.

So they deliberately avoid communicating with the rest of the world.

I deliberately avoided looking at the horizon, which seemed so far away.

It is deliberately avoided in some types of turns, however.

Certain areas were deliberately avoided, he said, "because we would not be doing the client a service."

He seems to deliberately avoid ways in which to learn all of the facts.

She deliberately avoided telling her brother that the lieutenant was dead.