diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index a85039c..fbcc8bb 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -24,12 +24,11 @@ URL: https://evaluate.r-lib.org/, https://github.com/r-lib/evaluate
 BugReports: https://github.com/r-lib/evaluate/issues
 Depends:
     R (>= 4.0.0)
-Imports:
-    methods
 Suggests:
     covr,
     ggplot2,
     lattice,
+    methods,
     rlang,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
     withr
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-evaluate.R b/tests/testthat/test-evaluate.R
index e607d74..7b1aa2b 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-evaluate.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-evaluate.R
@@ -25,18 +25,18 @@ test_that("terminal newline not needed", {
 })
 
 test_that("S4 methods are displayed with show, not print", {
-  setClass("A", contains = "function", where = environment())
-  setMethod("show", "A", function(object) cat("B"))
-  a <- new('A', function() b)
+  methods::setClass("A", contains = "function", where = environment())
+  methods::setMethod("show", "A", function(object) cat("B"))
+  a <- methods::new('A', function() b)
 
   ev <- evaluate("a")
   expect_equal(ev[[2]], "B")
 })
 
 test_that("errors during printing visible values are captured", {
-  setClass("A", contains = "function", where = environment())
-  setMethod("show", "A", function(object) stop("B"))
-  a <- new('A', function() b)
+  methods::setClass("A", contains = "function", where = environment())
+  methods::setMethod("show", "A", function(object) stop("B"))
+  a <- methods::new('A', function() b)
 
   ev <- evaluate("a")
   expect_s3_class(ev[[2]], "error")