diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 2110990d188973..c1d4d26736009f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    If the given source is a string, then leading and trailing spaces and tabs
    are stripped.
 
-   See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can safely evaluate strings
+   See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can "safely" evaluate strings
    with expressions containing only literals.
 
    .. audit-event:: exec code_object eval