The phrase "a wrong effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attempt or action that is misguided or not appropriate for the situation.
Example: "Despite their best intentions, the team's decision to change the project scope was ultimately a wrong effort that led to confusion."
Alternatives: "a misguided attempt" or "an incorrect effort".
Its memorysticks, its UMDs, and its ATRAC files have been kept around in a wrong-headed effort to "define" the market the way it had defined hardware during the 1980s and 1990s and it has fallen so far that I doubt it even knows who the iPods rivals are let alone how to avoid their traps.
Don't get me wrong, efforts to address the indignity of period poverty are indeed laudable, and make a real difference to people whose monthly cycles are a persistent source of dread and shame due to something as arbitrary as money.
You do not want to dedicate your time or dollars toward the wrong efforts.
But they have taken a wrong turn in their effort to save the three-track system basic, honors and AP/IB— in the county's high schools.
But the idea of structural discrimination is an effort to capture a wrong distinct from direct discrimination.
Some Romanian commentators slight him as a well-meaning former trade union leader out of his depth.But Mr Ciorbea has lately been proving cynics wrong, an effort that tells on his haggard face.
Richard A. Epstein, a law professor from the University of Chicago, said that while the ruling was one of Justice Brennan's "most powerful and artistic opinions," the holding was probably wrong, a misguided effort by the Federal judiciary to "micromanage" decisions best left to the political system.
Both sides went close before Briscoe came up with a spectacular effort, wrong-footing Ratchford and holding off Ben Currie's last-ditch attempt to stop him from putting the hosts ahead.
It has exposed unresolved problems in its efforts to reinvent itself.The wrong mixThose efforts have borne fruit: state-owned firms produced more than two-thirds of the region's GDP in the early 2000s.
Instead of being a model, the experience may provide a cautionary tale of what might go wrong with a U.S. effort to arm the rebels.
