Meaning of Moriarty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Irish.
2. Professor James Moriarty, fictional archenemy and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes; by extension any such archenemy or nemesis.
3. A city in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States.
4. A locality in Latrobe council area, Tasmania, Australia.

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Examples

“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.”

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