Something was being deliberately hidden from his gaze, and he wanted to know why.

"People can forget their true past, or have it deliberately hidden."

Did they know she was a torch, and so hid deliberately?

Yet this time, I knew he was deliberately hiding a deeper concern.

"You're sure the boy isn't deliberately hiding it somewhere in the library."

I know it sounds crazy, sir, but it's almost as if the computer were deliberately hiding information from the program.

You're acting as though I deliberately hid something from you, or lied.

And it may have been hidden from you deliberately.

If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect?

Eventually, after learning that the assessment hadn't been deliberately hidden, the buyers agreed to pay.