this is my code for my discord bot. I wanted to make the bot also deletes messages that contains bad words that has charactors (. , * / _ – and space character) the in between each letters of the words

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from replit import db

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
intents.messages = True

automod = False
intents.messages = True

db = {}
def update_encouragements(encouraging_message):
    if "encouragements" in db.keys():
        encouragements = db["encouragements"]
        encouragements.append(encouraging_message)
        db["encouragements"] = encouragements
    else:
        db["encouragements"] = [encouraging_message]

def delete_encouragment(index):
    encouragements = db["encouragements"]
    if len(encouragements) > index:
        del encouragements[index]
    db["encouragements"] = encouragements

with open("bad_wrods.txt", "r") as t:
    bad_words = t.read().splitlines()

def get_user_mention(mention):
    if mention.startswith('<@') and mention.endswith('>'):
        return client.get_user(mention[2:-1])

@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    await client.process_commands(message)
    global automod
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    if message.author.bot:
        return
    if automod:
        if any(word in message.content.lower() for word in bad_words):
            await message.delete()
            await message.channel.send(
                f"Nuh uh, {message.author.mention} Please do not use bad words."
            )

    if message.content.startswith("$automod-toggle") and message.author.id in [
            822685628201697311, 998625868643565640
    ]:
        if automod:
            automod = False
        else:
            automod = True
        await message.channel.send(
            f"Automod is now {'enabled' if automod else 'disabled'}")
        
        else:

is there anything that i can do to improve it?

I made a file that contains all the bad words, I tried to add make a copies of the words and put in the same file but i added space between the letters. it didnt work and also not effective because theres more than just the space character