A hot guy who accepts my French tendency to scold (8)
I believe the answer is:
admonish
'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.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for admonish that I've seen before include "Reprove, take to task" , "Caution - reprimand" , "Chide, reprove" , "Rebuke, tick off" , "Forewarn" .)