diff --git a/cloudinit/cmd/cloud_id.py b/cloudinit/cmd/cloud_id.py
index b71c19decea..b9c30fb4cb8 100755
--- a/cloudinit/cmd/cloud_id.py
+++ b/cloudinit/cmd/cloud_id.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def handle_args(name, args):
 
     Print the canonical cloud-id on which the instance is running.
 
-    @return: 0 on success, 1 on error, 2 on disabled, 3 on cloud-init not-run.
+    @return: 0 on success, 1 on error, 2 on disabled, 3 on cloud-init not run.
     """
     status, _status_details, _time = get_status_details()
     if status == UXAppStatus.DISABLED:
diff --git a/cloudinit/cmd/status.py b/cloudinit/cmd/status.py
index 597e5bfbc01..5176549dd51 100644
--- a/cloudinit/cmd/status.py
+++ b/cloudinit/cmd/status.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 class UXAppStatus(enum.Enum):
     """Enum representing user-visible cloud-init application status."""
 
-    NOT_RUN = "not-run"
+    NOT_RUN = "not run"
     RUNNING = "running"
     DONE = "done"
     ERROR = "error"
diff --git a/doc/man/cloud-id.1 b/doc/man/cloud-id.1
index c56587c8f19..cb500189c33 100644
--- a/doc/man/cloud-id.1
+++ b/doc/man/cloud-id.1
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ cloud-id \- Report the canonical cloud-id for this instance
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 cloud-id is the lowercase name of the cloud datasource discovered.
 
-The cloud-id will be 'not-run' when systemd generator has not run yet.
+The cloud-id will be 'not run' when systemd generator has not run yet.
 The cloud-id will be 'disabled' when cloud-init is disabled or when
 ds-identify did not find a valid datasource.
 
diff --git a/tests/unittests/cmd/test_status.py b/tests/unittests/cmd/test_status.py
index 17d275979f7..c5f424da812 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/cmd/test_status.py
+++ b/tests/unittests/cmd/test_status.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def test__is_cloudinit_disabled_false_when_enabled_in_systemd(self):
         )
 
     def test_status_returns_not_run(self):
-        """When status.json does not exist yet, return 'not-run'."""
+        """When status.json does not exist yet, return 'not run'."""
         self.assertFalse(
             os.path.exists(self.status_file), "Unexpected status.json found"
         )
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def test_status_returns_not_run(self):
                 cmdargs,
             )
         self.assertEqual(0, retcode)
-        self.assertEqual("status: not-run\n", m_stdout.getvalue())
+        self.assertEqual("status: not run\n", m_stdout.getvalue())
 
     def test_status_returns_disabled_long_on_presence_of_disable_file(self):
         """When cloudinit is disabled, return disabled reason."""