diff --git a/src/uu/nice/src/nice.rs b/src/uu/nice/src/nice.rs
index 90aab84c3d..fd4d84cd5d 100644
--- a/src/uu/nice/src/nice.rs
+++ b/src/uu/nice/src/nice.rs
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
     if let Err(e) = rustix::process::setpriority_process(None, new_niceness) {
         let warning_msg = translate!("nice-warning-setpriority", "util_name" => "nice", "error" => strip_errno(&e.into()) );
 
-        if write!(std::io::stderr(), "{warning_msg}").is_err() {
+        if writeln!(std::io::stderr(), "{warning_msg}").is_err() {
             set_exit_code(125);
             return Ok(());
         }
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_nice.rs b/tests/by-util/test_nice.rs
index a3e6f44045..d08558f6aa 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_nice.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_nice.rs
@@ -15,17 +15,16 @@ fn test_get_current_niceness() {
 
 #[test]
 #[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
-fn test_negative_adj_is_adjustment() {
+fn test_nice_adj_negative() {
     // This assumes the test suite is run as a normal (non-root) user, and as
     // such attempting to set a negative niceness value will be rejected by
     // the OS.  If it gets denied, then we know a negative value was parsed
     // correctly.
 
-    let res = new_ucmd!().args(&["--adj", "-1", "true"]).succeeds();
-    assert!(
-        res.stderr_str()
-            .starts_with("nice: warning: setpriority: Permission denied")
-    ); // spell-checker:disable-line
+    new_ucmd!()
+        .args(&["--adj", "-20", "true"])
+        .succeeds()
+        .stderr_is("nice: warning: setpriority: Permission denied\n");
 }
 
 #[test]