Professor James Moriarty, fictional archenemy and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes; by extension and such archenemy or nemesis
The town of Twin peaks, suddenly not energised by its mammary setting, is narrated as a large chess board on which the action is completely defined by the competing logic of Dale Cooper and his Moriarty-like nemesis, Windom Earle.
(Edebiyat) (Moriarty, Professor) an extremely intelligent criminal, who is the main enemy of Sherlock Holmes in the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle