"deliberately distanced" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to mean to intentionally create a physical or emotional distance between oneself and something or someone else. For example, "The prime minister deliberately distanced himself from the scandal by issuing a public statement."
Mr Cameron deliberately distanced himself from Lady Thatcher, much to the irritation of her followers.
The Wave team deliberately distanced itself from Google's headquarters, choosing to be based in the company's Sydney office.
For his part, Brown passed up a Republican national convention speaking slot – a move that deliberately distanced him from Mitt Romney, the state's former governor and his political mentor.
Unlike Jacqueline Kennedy, who deliberately distanced herself from the matronly style of former first ladies, helping to conjure up the seductive visual mood of John F. Kennedy's Camelot, there is little hard evidence that Queen Elizabeth II consciously set about fashioning a "look".
To write the music for the console's flagship game, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega hired J-pop star Masato Nakamura - who deliberately distanced himself from the 8-bit, chiptune sounds that had become the medium's distinguishing characteristics.
A nirvana where they can truly immerse themselves in their deliberately distanced reveries.
In 1997, asked to write a pre-election dispatch for the Observer, she travelled to the Gipton estate in Leeds, deliberately distancing herself from her native Leicester, where she has lived all her life.
Windsor has paid off her debts, her mortgage and has managed, partly by dint of having been so famous from the Carry On films, partly by deliberately distancing herself from the character, to maintain her independence of the part.
"Joseph Anton," which is written in a deliberately distancing, yet scrupulously accurate, third-person voice, is, in its way, as important a book as "Midnight's Children," the novel that gave birth to the Rushdie phenomenon, in 1981.
Whereas Mr Jiang's career has concentrated on nurturing the middle class, Mr Hu presents himself as a champion of the poor.It is too early to conclude that Mr Hu is deliberately distancing himself from Mr Jiang.
In the days of Sir Nicholas's valedictory dispatch, when British decline seemed inexorable, the idea of deliberately distancing Britain from a booming continental Europe would have seemed absurd.
