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Which is where “Good Fortune,” for all its grasp of how Depression-era screwball comedies made the filthy rich mockable, struggles to match its issue-driven humor with its fix-it heart.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

It’s on a razor’s edge of being mockable, but still can hold resonance in our minds and hearts.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2022

Hence the show's extremely mockable take on a treat traditionally prepared using pre-packaged ingredients and a found stick that isn't too dirty.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 2022

Another piece of good news: The commercial name for the vaccine—Comirnaty—is rather mockable.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2021

As of his own coinage I should set down such vocables as motley-minded, mirth-moving, mockable, marbled, martyred, merriness, marrowless, mightful, multipotent, masterdom, monarchize, etc. etc.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various