diff --git a/scripts/asciidoc2html.py b/scripts/asciidoc2html.py
index ce29becc0..bd51b27ef 100755
--- a/scripts/asciidoc2html.py
+++ b/scripts/asciidoc2html.py
@@ -154,17 +154,17 @@ class AsciiDoc:
                     hidden = False
                 elif line == "The Compiler <mail@qutebrowser.org>\n":
                     continue
-                elif re.match(r'^:\w+:.*', line):
+                elif re.fullmatch(r':\w+:.*', line):
                     # asciidoc field
                     continue
 
                 if not found_title:
-                    if re.match(r'^=+$', line):
+                    if re.fullmatch(r'=+', line):
                         line = line.replace('=', '-')
                         found_title = True
                         title = last_line.rstrip('\n') + " | qutebrowser\n"
                         title += "=" * (len(title) - 1)
-                    elif re.match(r'^= .+', line):
+                    elif re.fullmatch(r'= .+', line):
                         line = '==' + line[1:]
                         found_title = True
                         title = last_line.rstrip('\n') + " | qutebrowser\n"
diff --git a/scripts/dev/run_vulture.py b/scripts/dev/run_vulture.py
index 9d21ad428..11cfce792 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/run_vulture.py
+++ b/scripts/dev/run_vulture.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def filter_func(item):
         True if the missing function should be filtered/ignored, False
         otherwise.
     """
-    return bool(re.match(r'[a-z]+[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+', item.name))
+    return bool(re.fullmatch(r'[a-z]+[A-Z][a-zA-Z]+', item.name))
 
 
 def report(items):
diff --git a/scripts/dictcli.py b/scripts/dictcli.py
index 2742de8ad..98754d628 100755
--- a/scripts/dictcli.py
+++ b/scripts/dictcli.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def parse_entry(entry):
     dict_re = re.compile(r"""
         (?P<filename>(?P<code>[a-z]{2}(-[A-Z]{2})?).*)\.bdic
     """, re.VERBOSE)
-    match = dict_re.match(entry['name'])
+    match = dict_re.fullmatch(entry['name'])
     if match is not None:
         return match.group('code'), match.group('filename')
     else: