Sentence:  The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more <WSD>pretty</WSD> by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children, but less strikingly than something beautiful. (from 15th c.)