diff --git a/man/mu-verify.1 b/man/mu-verify.1
index 89f111c6..412dfe0e 100644
--- a/man/mu-verify.1
+++ b/man/mu-verify.1
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ To display information about all the signatures:
 
 If you only want to use the exit code, you can use:
 .nf
-   $ mu verify --verbose msgfile
+   $ mu verify --quiet msgfile
 .fi
 which does not give any output.