The phrase "a false attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an effort that is insincere, misleading, or not genuine.
Example: "His claim to have tried to fix the issue was merely a false attempt to avoid responsibility."
Alternatives: "a feigned effort" or "a deceptive attempt."
After a false start attempting to farm cotton, he got into the diamond business – and made heaps of money.
The program that owns the account you are trying to guess the password of will more often than not have a "safety valve" - for example, you can only make 3 false attempts every 2 minutes.
What she said: key quotes Watts was furious with BBC management and accused her bosses of making "misguided and false" attempts to use her to corroborate Gilligan's reports and get them out of trouble.
Mr. Seidel, from the district attorney's office, disclosed e-mails that he said showed false attempts by Mr. Haggerty to cover his tracks, especially once people inside and outside the campaign started to inquire about his spending.
The pharmacy today, in North Kolkata- Laketown, the card machine was out of order, the e-wallet application was working after four false attempts.
Like an abusive spouse or parent who seasons expressions of love with outbursts of violence, expressions of hate poisons the air rending impotent and false attempts at unity or comity.
Likewise, Wittgensteinians may claim that Wittgenstein's own opposition to metaphysics only concerned false attempts to render it intelligible: his merely ineffable but uneliminated metaphysics concerned precisely what for him were essentials of ways of representing the world.
"We shouldn't run away from difference in a false and superficial attempt to create multicultural harmony," he says.
Denes had a half-hearted quibble: "There is a false climax that attempts to unite far too many characters and storylines: here Smith is only spelling out themes - about family and belonging and history - already implicit in the narrative.
But instead of trying to learn from Pershing, Trump cites a false story in an attempt to sound tough and get a sound bite on TV.
