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"deliberately difficult" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something or someone intentionally causing difficulty or being hard to understand or accomplish. Example: The math teacher gave us a deliberately difficult quiz to challenge our problem-solving skills.
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Some people call up with deliberately difficult questions.
The design offered by the Dutch practice OMA seems a deliberately "difficult" architectural montage.
Deliberately difficult novels are the only novels he seems to be interested in writing.
It's also the sort of boredom that some of Wallace's tortuously long and deliberately difficult descriptions invoke in his reader.
Mr. Kermode's critics sometimes faulted him for a deliberately difficult style and what Mr. Lodge called "intellectual dandyism".
IT is not unheard of for a novelist of exceptional talent to write a deliberately difficult book.
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The previous section has deliberately taken difficult cases.
Some consumers suspect that banks have deliberately made it difficult to move into cheaper checking accounts.
Why does she deliberately choose the "difficult" patients whom none of her colleagues want to take on?
Robert W. Ray, the independent prosecutor investigating Whitewater matters, has told a federal judge that lawyers at the White House deliberately made it difficult for investigators seeking subpoenaed documents.
If you talk to them, they speak about deliberately seeking out difficult places to train, not of gaining access to better facilities.
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