Tick off day being hugged by a beautiful person (8)
I believe the answer is:
admonish
'tick off' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'day being hugged by a beautiful person' is the wordplay.
'day' becomes 'mon' (abbreviation for Monday).
'being hugged by' means one lot of letters goes inside another (I've seen this in other clues).
'beautiful person' becomes 'dish' (dish can mean an attractive person).
'a'+'dish'='adish'
'mon' inserted within 'adish' is 'ADMONISH'.
(Other definitions for admonish that I've seen before include "Chide, reprove" , "Tell off" , "Rebuke, tick off" , "criticise" , "Mildly reprove" .)