diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 50cf0dc..1639c2c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 
 pbr>=1.6
 Babel>=1.3
-cliff>=1.14.0
+cliff>1.16.0
 oslo.utils>=2.0.0
 keystoneauth1>=1.0.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vitrageclient/shell.py b/vitrageclient/shell.py
index 9a15db6..ff08dcf 100644
--- a/vitrageclient/shell.py
+++ b/vitrageclient/shell.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ class VitrageShell(app.App):
         """
 
         parser = super(VitrageShell, self).build_option_parser(
-            description, version)
+            description, version, argparse_kwargs={'allow_abbrev': False})
 
         self.register_keyauth_argparse_arguments(parser)