Comparing substr values of two columns

Say you have a table with 3 columns:
*Unique random-generated id,
*First name
*Mailing name
I need to find all the rows where the mailing name does not contain the value of the first name column.
The "like" operator (only used with where clause) doesn't seem to work because what you want to do is:
select * from table
where [first_name is *not* found in *part of* (it will never be exact match) the mailing_name]
What's the correct where clause?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Maybe You can use something like
select * from table
where instr(Mailing name, First name) = 0
For example
SQL> select 1 from dual
2 where instr('GINTS PLIVNA','aaa') = 0;
1
1
SQL> select 1 from dual
2 where instr('GINTS PLIVNA', 'INTS') =0;
no rows selected
SQL>

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