"exaggerated effort" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to describe someone putting in more effort or energy than is necessary or expected. Example: "Despite his exaggerated effort, Tommy was unable to lift the heavy barbell." This sentence implies that Tommy was putting in a lot of effort, but it was more than was needed in order to lift the barbell.
The judge also wrote that the actions of the local government "simply demonstrate the Town Council's exaggerated efforts to find a means to the end that Jobs seeks".
After the build-up to the Test was dominated by the Kevin Pietersen controversy, an England side seemingly making exaggerated efforts to appear united had one of their best days of the series to put South Africa under genuine pressure for the first time this summer.
We hypothesize that intrinsic overcommitment, a personality trait possibly resulting in continued exaggerated efforts combined with disappointing rewards, might also increase the risk of poor health.
All these books, recognizing our supermarket-induced ignorance, make an exaggerated, outsized effort to teach us the cuts.
The campaign takes a humorously light-hearted tack, presenting FreshDirect as the alternative to exaggerated, Herculean efforts to ensure that groceries meet the high standards of its target audience.
The calf showed dyspnea with an increased respiratory rate of 60 breaths/min (normal: 20-40 breaths/min) [ 9] and exaggerated expiratory efforts accompanied by spontaneous unproductive cough.
The calf showed an inspiratory dyspnea with an increased respiratory rate of 54 breaths/min and exaggerated expiratory efforts accompanied by occasional spontaneous unproductive cough.
The increased myoelectric activity seen in LBP subjects during the FRP has been attributed to several factors, such as muscle spasm, reduced range of motion, exaggerated stretch reflexes, effort to protect damaged passive structures or response to local instability caused by injured spinal structures [ 6, 16, 33].
Some call the problems we are facing on our campuses exaggerated and our efforts naïve.
