Meanings of sheer incompetence in English

Is there a refund when one of the sides displays sheer incompetence?

Maybe even the defence of sheer incompetence can be used here.

That stupid buck from Arturo's studio nearly slaughtered my daughter by sheer incompetence.

No, I don't think shame is in their way, or pride, but sheer incompetence.

There is only one explanation for this: sheer incompetence.

There was a moment, on Wednesday night, when through sheer incompetence on the debate stage, Michael Bloomberg almost achieved authenticity.

JW Through sheer incompetence.

Yet there are some referees who let themselves down through sheer incompetence, as Bafana Bafana and Senegal found out this week.

A million took to the streets in June against broken promises, authoritarianism and the sheer incompetence of the Muslim Brotherhood government.

Victorians are being smashed by the sheer incompetence of this Government." Shadow Attorney-General Edward O'Donohue described it as a "shambles".

And to everyone's amazement, the government of London, out of sheer incompetence and poor planning, was about to give it to them.

While Fianna Fáil is less than perfect, its perennial role in government is a damming indictment of the sheer incompetence of the opposition parties.

Their complacency, arrogance, competing jurisdictions sheer incompetence and possible but not yet proven protection of suspects have deeply shamed Belgians and convulsed the legal system.

But other experts have grown increasingly sceptical of the new approach, arguing that manufacturing errors, disgruntled insiders and sheer incompetence can also send missiles awry.

Either they had let a key witness slip through their hands or, even worse, they had driven him to flight through their own sheer incompetence.

"That," he said disdainfully, "is one way of describing what others would call sheer incompetence."