diff --git a/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1 b/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1
index 3ced5ac38595..65b8fb386274 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: apropos.1,v 1.19 2022/05/17 01:22:14 gutteridge Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: apropos.1,v 1.20 2022/05/17 08:35:46 uwe Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ The location of the Sqlite FTS database can be configured using the
 tag.
 .El
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-.Bl -tag -width APROPOSX
+.Bl -tag -width Ev
 .It Ev APROPOS
 This environment variable is white-space tokenized as an argument vector
 and the options in it are parsed and set.