diff --git a/sbin/md5/md5.1 b/sbin/md5/md5.1
index bb2b3f4129f4..2397d9e69fe0 100644
--- a/sbin/md5/md5.1
+++ b/sbin/md5/md5.1
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ This also means that
 .Tn MD5
 should not be used as part of a cryptographic signature scheme.
 At the current time (2009-01-06) there is no publicly known method to
-"reverse" MD5, i.e., to find an input given a hash value.
+.Dq reverse
+MD5, i.e., to find an input given a hash value.
 .Pp
 .Tn SHA-1
 currently (2009-01-06) has no known collisions, but an attack has been