In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
MISFORTUNATE
hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
(adjective) deserving or inciting pity; “a hapless victim”; “miserable victims of war”; “the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic”- Galsworthy; “piteous appeals for help”; “pitiable homeless children”; “a pitiful fate”; “Oh, you poor thing”; “his poor distorted limbs”; “a wretched life”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Mis*for"tu*nate, a.
Definition: Producing misfortune. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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