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A hot guy who accepts my French tendency to scold (8)

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I believe the answer is:

admonish

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'to scold' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'a hot guy who accepts my french' is the wordplay.
'hot guy who' becomes 'dish' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'accepts' indicates putting letters inside.
'my french' becomes 'mon' ('my' in French).
'dish' going around 'mon' is 'dmonish'.
'a'+'dmonish'='ADMONISH'

'tendency' is the link.
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(Other definitions for admonish that I've seen before include "Reprove, take to task" , "Caution - reprimand" , "Chide, reprove" , "Rebuke, tick off" , "Forewarn" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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