The phrase "an attempt to blame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made by someone to assign responsibility or fault to another person or group.
Example: "His comments were clearly an attempt to blame the failure on his colleagues rather than taking responsibility himself."
Alternatives: "an effort to assign blame" or "a move to accuse".
It was nothing more than an attempt to blame Podemos for preventing Rajoy's return to power.
"This is an attempt to blame the Poles – or accuse them of complicity – for the Holocaust," he told the paper.
This appalling death toll of so many loved ones lost was compounded by an attempt to blame the victims.
They saw the events as an attempt to blame Bosnian Serbs for the First World War – which led to the formation of independent Yugoslavia – and for the ethnically charged conflicts that then hastened the country's dissolution in the 1990s.
An accompanying editorial referred to "the enemy among us" — that is, American Muslims — and concluded, "If this is taken as an attempt to blame by association, so be it.
That was the landmark description of the families' experience: first the injustice of losing their loved ones, then "the denigration of the deceased, compounded by an attempt to blame the victims".
But the Facebook founder also seized on the opportunity to indulge in a little suggestive shade throwing which looked very much like an attempt to blame-shift responsibility for the massive data scandal embroiling his company onto, of all things, one of the UK's most prestigious universities.
After the Paris attacks, an insidious attempt to blame Belgium for the attacks struck me as (at best) ill-informed.
Ford Motor 's move ten days ago to recall tires on its popular Explorer model was a transparent attempt to blame the vehicle's safety problems on an outside company that made just one component of the vehicle.
These goals have converged in a new attempt to blame the law for the financial crisis.
In a written statement, a CIBC spokesman says the lawsuit is "made out of whole cloth and is no more than a transparent attempt to blame someone else for their own poor investment decision".
